#are you il divo af?

[loldivo]

Are you Carlos Marín AF? Happy Birthday, Carlos! (October 13th, 1968)

[viriyanon]

tagged by AGAIN @jazthespazz​ ma’am why are you giving me an actual job today thank you so much

name: angela

pronouns: she/her

star sign: 🐐

height: 156 or so fUCK IM SMOL I HATE IT HERE 😠😠😠

time: 10:37pm

birthday: 1st of jan 

nationality: take a wild wild guess

fave bands/groups: uhh im not sure abt this since im an ear-catching-or-not-oriented but seventeen, suju, and jj project (MOM DAD I MISS U) always have a special part in my heart. also, uhm chicago? westlife? toto? mamamoo? the neighbourhood? kodaline? alt-j? il divo, if u know them? i used to listen to the alan parsons project i kinda miss them. also, parekh and singh.

fave solo artists: UHHH I DONT KNOW LIKE DOES LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN COUNT? AND SERGEI RACHMANINOFF??? I MEAN THE WAY THEY MAKE COMPOSITIONS THAT DEFINITELY WILL BE PLAYED ON THE JUDGMENT DAY AS THE WORLD BUUURNS??? im obsessed. umm who else, hozier. asgeir, he’s a soloist from iceland, andrea bocelli, finneas oh my i love him. ice paper, he is a soloist from china. uh, does earth pirapat watthanasetsiri count cus yEs? melanie martinez? OH ALSO FATHER JOHN MISTY YES.

song stuck in your head: now? come and get your loooove~ by redbone

last movie you watched: i just rewatched doctor sleep for the fifth time last night

last show you binged: reunion: the sound of providence cus hhhhhhhhhhhhhh zhu yilong u A CUTE LIL BEAN IM SO ANGRY CUS HES JUST SO CUTE, YOUR HONOR

when you created your blog: 2012

the last thing you googled: “who sings a million dreams”

other blogs: one blog is already tiring

why i chose my url: cus PHUPHA VIRIYANON IS A BIG MAN WITH A BIGGER HEART IN ORDER TO RESPECT HIS KINDNESS AND HUMBLENESS AND HOW I RELATE TO HIS DECISION AND MINDSET MOST OF THE TIME, I MAKE THIS URL FOR MY MAN

how many people are you following: 3 something

how many followers do you have: 9 something

average hours of sleep: never count. i sleep when i wanna sleep, wake when i wanna wake.

lucky numbers: ??????? people have.... lucky numbers??

instruments: guitar, piano, harmonica but im rotten af

what i'm currently wearing: red shirts, green shorts. simplicity at its best. also, merry christmas.

dream job: movie director. an author. natgeo photographer. anything that i can express my aesthetic to. oh, an iceland farmer. cus im done with busy cities and unnecessary races i just want a calm life with a flock of sheep and sunset and vast grassland

dream trip: Iceland and Switzerland

fave food: i eat almost everything except tomato. what the fck is that sht.

top three fictional universes you'd like to live in: idk the answer to this tbh like what kind of answers are being expected. but uh the fictional universe where jiang yuelou gets his sunset with chen yuzhi and triple that. oh wait thAt. the one where i live as phupha's subordinates and annoy him with the gang til his death

tagging everyone who wanna join it’s ok dont be shy im just a lazy ass in tagging people heheh

[james-winston]

[i was tagged by @softblowjobs, thank you, it’s like you knew I was bored af]

Last movie watched: Captain America: Civil War

Last song listened to: O Holy Night - Il Divo 

Last show watched: The Murder Detectives

Last book read: Captive Prince - Prince’s Gambit

Last thing eaten: Strawberry Fields Tic Tacs (lol d’you get it lol)

If you could go anywhere right now, where would it be: Canada to annoy @louspinkypromise and @organicspaceapricot 

When would you time travel to: Look let’s not pretend I’m not a slut for McLennon and say Key West that night in 1965.

First thing you would do with lottery money: Buy my ma a new car.

Character you would hang out for a day with: I honestly can’t think of a single one from anything that I’m that bothered about. Sherlock Holmes? Preferably the PLOSH Sherlock though.

Time right now: 2300 

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'Suing the Government Is Very Punk Rock:' SONA Hosts Third Songwriters Summit as It Strategizes DOJ Lawsuit

'Suing the Government Is Very Punk Rock:' SONA Hosts Third Songwriters Summit as It Strategizes DOJ Lawsuit

“This injustice against songwriters has gone on for far too long,” says a SONA co-founder.

The Songwriters of North America will hold its third annual invite-only Songwriters Summit on June 28 in Los Angeles. Roughly 150 SONA members will gather to discuss issues important to songwriters which includes among other things an ongoing lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice.

“As songwriters, we’re tired of letting other people speak for us while our songs — our copyrights — were being exploited to make streaming platforms and labels rich” Kay Hanley, SONA’s co-executive director, told Billboard. “So we decided to take matters into our own hands and besides, suing the government is a very punk rock thing to do.”

Punk AF or not, SONA sued the DOJ last year following what it sees as the government’s unjust, inequitable and unconstitutional ruling in prohibiting fractional licensing which the group says will result in dramatically lower compensation for songwriters. The DOJ is currently attempting to have the suit dismissed while SONA is awaiting a judge’s decision on whether or not the dismissal hearing will proceed with oral arguments.

“The DOJ’s motion to dismiss our lawsuit claims the songwriters do not have standing to sue, their due process has not been violated, and the DOJ was within their authority to unilaterally decide to rip away their private property rights,”  the suit’s co-counsel Gerald Fox of Gerard Fox Law told Billboard. “I am personally looking forward to seeing their arguments get destroyed.”

SONA co-founder and attorney advisor Dina LaPolt was even more blunt in her assessment. “At first glance we knew that the DOJ was full of s**t — they’re just trying to bully us into dropping the lawsuit, which is how the federal government likes to behave… bullying people into submission,” the outspoken lawyer said. “This isn’t North Korea.”

In addition to Fox, LaPolt and Steven Wallach (also of Gerard Fox Law), SONA recently added Sandra Aistars as a co-counsel on the case. Aistars is a George Mason University Law professor with nearly 20 years of advocacy experience on behalf of copyright and other intellectual property owners and is also director of the school’s Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic. Students enrolled in the Clinic will assist in the SONA v. DOJ lawsuit.

SONA was co-founded in January 2015 by co-executive directors Michelle Lewis (Cher, Little Mix, currently a full-time composer for Disney) and Hanley (founding member of Letters to Cleo, currently a full-time composer for Disney) when they came into LaPolt’s office asking how they could get involved in legislative efforts to help songwriters.

“I literally said to them, ‘Where the f**k have you been? Everyone’s been eating your lunch,'” LaPolt says referring to what she sees as other interests in the music business getting more than their fair share of earnings in part off the work of songwriters.

SONA’s members include a number of high-profile figures, including: Kara DioGuardi (Pink, Jason Derulo, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood), Anne Preven (Katy Perry, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Madonna), Claudia Brant (Latin Grammy Award winner, three-time SESAC Latina Songwriter of the Year, songs for Il Divo, Ricky Martin, Santana, Paulina Rubio), Victoria Horn (Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Enrique Iglesias), Lindy Robbins (Jason Derulo,Demi Lovato, Hot Chelle Rae), Shelly Peiken (Christina Aguilera, Meredith Brooks, Brandy), Pam Sheyne (Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Corinne Bailey Rae), Danielle Brisebois (Natasha Bedingfield, member of New Radicals), Michael “Smidi” Smith (Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Pussycat Dolls, Ke$ha), Jack Kugell (Martina McBride, Pussycat Dolls), and Andrew Rollins (composer for TV show Nashville).

After gaining nearly 200 songwriters, in May 2015 LaPolt gave an hour-long presentation at Los Angeles’ Ocean Way Recording Studios for the first SONA Songwriters Summit in which she explained the regulations which prevent songwriters from negotiating in a free market.

In its press materials, SONA claims 75 percent of songwriters’ income is regulated by the federal U.S. government and that the consent decrees, which date back to 1941 and that ASCAP and BMI operate under, unfairly restrict the Performing Rights Organizations and were imposed because of antitrust concerns that are “no longer relevant.” The decrees require rate courts to set the rates for public performance licenses, which SONA says is “slow, expensive, outdated, and ineffective.”

The songwriters’ argument has attracted congressional leaders on both side of the aisle including Rep. Doug Collins, a Republican from Georgia, who sees the issue as one of over-regulation and anti-free market; as well as Rep. Karen Bass, a Democrat from California who sees songwriters as being underpaid for their work.

“The time for us to win this lawsuit is now,” LaPolt says. “This injustice has gone on for far too long and the more the public and politicians know about how songwriters are getting screwed, the more they join our fight.”

This article originally appeared on Billboard.

http://tunecollective.com/2017/06/26/suing-government-punk-rock-sona-hosts-third-songwriters-summit-strategizes-doj-lawsuit/

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Are you Urs Buhler AF?

Happy Birthday, Urs! (July 19th, 1971)

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Are you David Miller AF?

Happy Birthday, David! (April 14, 1973)

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Are you Sébastien Izambard AF?

Happy Birthday, Seb! (March 7, 1973)